DJ Khaled is sharing how turning to GLP-1 medication helped him lose 90 pounds after an on-stage incident forced him to reflect on his health.
Speaking about his weight-loss journey in an interview with People published on Thursday, November 12, the DJ, 50, shared how one of his October 2025 shows became the motivation for change.
“There’s a part of my show where I get on my knees and give thanks and show my gratitude,” he said. “So, I get on my knees … but I remember I couldn’t really get up.”
According to Khaled, some of his loved ones were so worried by what they saw that they contacted the star following the performance to check in.
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“One of my friends was coming to me like, ‘Yo, you were breathing hard.’ Then, 10 minutes later, somebody else told me the same thing,” he said.
The record producer, who shared that he weighed around 295-300 pounds at the time, turned to medication Wegovy to help him slim down.
“The motivation was there, the inspiration was there, working out and trying to eat better, but I needed help,” Khaled told People.
Khaled added that he also wanted to get his health in check for his family. (Khaled shares two sons, Asahd, 10, and Aalam, 6, with wife Nicole Tuck.)
“We live for our kids and our kids make us live. So, I have to do my part,” Khaled said.
After he began taking the medication a year ago and incorporated more exercise into his life such as golf and walking 10,000 steps a day, Khaled’s weight is now sitting around the 200-212 pound mark.
“I’m just way healthier. I’ve got more energy. I’m more motivated to do everything,” he said. “I wasn’t saying all that when I was bigger. Of course, I was happy — my doctor always told me I was a Rolls-Royce with junk in the trunk. And now, he’s saying, ‘You need to be studied, that’s how healthy you are.’”
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Khaled previously raved about the benefits golf has brought to his life, telling Us in September 2023 that he often handles work while out on the golf course.
“I enjoy it,” he told Us exclusively at the time. “I handle my business so well because I’m either out there by myself or if I’m playing with my friends or my business partners.”
He explained to Us that golf was the ideal way to nail work/life balance as well as being beneficial for both his physical and mental health.
“I do it every day and I get a chance to sit on the golf cart or walking about to answer an email or a call and handle my business,” he told Us. “It’s so much [more] pleasurable, meaning [being around] the nature, the sun. It cleanses me. It’s almost like going in the ocean without going in the ocean.”
